About us

We are Canine Efficiency. An
initiative from Ray, Jenny joined in later.

Here is our story in a nutshell.

Since his youngest years Ray has a great passion for
dogs and Nature. As the name already shows he aims for the most efficient use
of (utility) dogs within their purpose. In his spare time he’s mostly active
with dogs and Nature.

His two biggest passions, Nature and dogs, which are
unseparately connected, lead to the start of Canine Efficiency. With Canine
Efficiency he focuses on Nature conservation with effective conflict prevention
between man and predator through the use of good livestock guardian dogs (LGDs)
in the right way.

Family and friends already knew how to find him and
more and more requests from other people are coming through social media or
other channels. Advice for the right use of livestock guardian dogs, but also
other utility dogs and pet dogs.

Jenny and Ray met each other in the end of 2011, when
Ray had his last school day in Velp, and Jenny her first. It was the same education;
Eco & Wildlife at Helicon. From there a friendship arose which both didn’t
experience before and later this friendship became a love relationship. Not
long after they met Jenny had to face ‘big dogs, something with which she didn’t
have experience yet and she even was somewhat nervous around big dogs. First
she met Ray’s working K9 and later also his own Malinois and German Shepherd
dog. In 2012 Jenny did her internship at Ray for which they went to Italy,
Portugal and Spain to perform coexistence research. In other words; looking for
shepherds, their flocks and livestock guardian dogs. Another year later, in May
2013, they went to Transylvania, Romania, together for the first time. There Jenny
met their beloved Romanian Carpathian Shepherd Dogs (Ciobanesc Romanesc
Carpatin) for the first time, one of the four local livestock guardian dog
breeds. The decision was made to go live
there and in 2015 the time was there; they migrated! First to Hungary,
beginning 2016 to Romania.

We gained much experience, both in real life as via
internet and phone. We gave advice in various countries, in various languages
and about various dogs. Now it is time for us to return to The Netherlands and
this will happen soon! From September 2018 Canine Efficiency is back in The
Netherlands!